WORKSHEET: STATISTICS

1) The marks achieved in a maths test by 30 students are:

2 3 8 7 7 3 9 5 5 4 1 6 5 7 6 6 5 8 7 3 4 5 6 5 4 6 7 7 9 8
a) Organize the data in a frequency table
Abs. frequency Rel. frequency
Marks in Maths Rel. frequency Abs. Cumulative Rel. Cumulative Rel. Cumulative
fi ni ni (%) Frequency Ni Frequency Ni (%)
xi frequency Fi
1 0,03 3% 1 0,03 3%
1
1 0,03 3% 2 0,07 7%
2
3 3 0,10 10% 5 0,17 17%
4 3 0,10 10% 8 0,27 27%
5 6 0,20 20 % 14 0,47 47%
6 5 0,17 17% 19 0,63 63%
7 6 0,20 20% 25 0,83 83%
8 3 0,10 10 % 28 0,93 93%
9 2 0,07 7% 30 1,00 100%
TOTAL 30 1,00 100%

b) How many students passed the maths test?

30-8 = 22 students passed the test
c) What percentage of the students failed the maths test?
27% of the students failed the test
d) Draw a bar chart and a frequency polygon

Marks in Abs. Frequency

Maths
xi fi
1 1
2 1
3 3
4 3
5 6
6 5
7 6
8 3
9 2
TOTAL 30
2) The following table shows the number of students in a university and their faculty.
Draw a pie chart to illustrate this information.
Faculty Science Arts Medicine Engineering Law

Students 495 373 108 54 48

STUDENTS IN EACH FACULTY

Faculty Students Rel. frequency Angle Law
Engineering
4%
fi ni (%) 5%

Medicine
Science 495 46% 10%

Arts 373 35%

Science
Medicine 108 10% Arts
46%

35%
Engineering 54 5%
Law 48 4%
TOTAL 1078 100% 360°
Science Arts Medicine Engineering Law
 3) The pie chart shows 24 hours in Syd’s life. Syd spends 8 hours sleeping.
Calculate:
a) The value of x
x = 360º - (15º + 90º + 120º + 30º) = 105º
b) The fraction of time spent sleeping:
120 1

360 3
c) The percentage of time spent watching TV
90 1

360 4
d) The number of hours for each category
30 1 1
Eating:   of 24  2 hours
360 12 12

College: 105  7  7 of 24  7 hours

360 24 24

Washing,…: 15  1 1
 of 24  1 hour
360 24 24
90 1 1
Watching TV:   of 24  6 hours
360 4 4

Sleeping: 8 hours
4) Every student in Anthony’s class threw a ball as far as possible. The lengths of the
throws, to the nearest metre, are shown.
a) Draw and complete a frequency table, using class intervals [0,5),[5,10),…and also
calculate the mean, mode, median, range, variance and standard deviation
8 15 18 11 10 20 24 11 12 21 22 9 7
12 14 18 6 19 4 22 21 17 13 15 20

Lengths Class Abs.

(m) mark freq. Median Rel. Rel.Cum. Mean
Freq. Variance
Class Fi (Abs. Freq.
fi Cum.freq.) ni Ni xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
Intervals xi
[0, 5) 2.5 1 1 0.04 0.04 2,5 6,25
[5, 10) 7.5 4 5 0.16 0.2 225,00
30,0
[10, 15) 12.5 7 12 0.28 0.48 87,5 1093,75
[15, 20) 17.5 6 18 0.24 0.72 105,0 1837,50
[20, 25) 22.5 7 25 0.28 1 157,5 3543,75
TOTAL 25  xi ·fi =382,5  xi 2 ·f i=6706,25
 Lengths Class Abs.
(m) mark freq. Median Rel. Rel.Cum. Mean
Variance
Class Fi (Abs. Freq. Freq.
fi Cum.freq.) ni Ni xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
Intervals xi
[0, 5) 2.5 1 1 0.04 0.04 2,5 6,25
[5, 10) 7.5 4 5 0.16 0.2 30,0 225,00
[10, 15) 12.5 7 12 0.28 0.48 87,5 1093,75
[15, 20) 17.5 6 18 >12.5 0.24 0.72 105,0 1837,50
[20, 25) 22.5 7 25 0.28 1 157,5 3543,75
TOTAL 25  xi ·fi =382,5  xi 2 ·f =6706,25
i

Arithmetic mean: 25
Median: Halfway point:  12.5
2
x
 xi ·fi 
382.5
= 15.3 The median lies in the class interval [15, 20)
N 25
 Me= 15.5

Mode: The modal class are [10, 15) and [20, 25)  Mo = 12.5 and 22.5

Range = 25 – 0 = 25 Variance:  2

 x ·f  x
2
i i 2

6706.25
 15.32 = 34.16
f i 25

Standard deviation:   34.16  5.84

b) Draw a histogram and a frequency polygon to illustrate this information

Class Absolute Histogram

Lengths (m)
mark frequency 8
Class

Absolute frequency
fi 7
Intervals xi 6
[0, 5) 2,5 1 5
[5, 10) 7,5 4 4
3
[10, 15) 12,5 7 2
[15, 20) 17,5 6 1

[20, 25) 22,5 7 0 5 10 15 20 25

Lengths (m)
TOTAL 25
5) The teachers of a high school are asked about their favourite film genres. The answers
were:
Comedy: 27% Action: 18% Romance: 14% Drama: 14%
Horror: 11% Foreign: 8% Science fiction: 8%
a) Draw a pie chart with the data.
Favourite Rel. frequency Angle

film genre ni (%) FAVOURITE FILM GENRE

Science fiction;
Comedy 27% Foreign; 8%
8%

Comedy; 27%
Action 18%
Romance 14% Horror; 11%

Drama 14%
Horror 11%
Drama; 14%
Foreign 8% Action; 18%

Science fiction 8% Romance; 14%

TOTAL 100% 360°

b) Imagine there are 120 teachers in this high school. How many of them answer
“Romance”?
14·120
14% of 120   16.8 17 teachers
100
6) Six numbers are arranged in order: and the median of these numbers is 5.5.

a) Calculate the unknown number

3.2 4.5 x 6 7.8 8.5

x +6
Me = = 5.5  x  6  2·5.5
2
x  6  11
x 5
b) Calculate the mean of the six numbers.

Total number of data: N = 6

3.2 + 4.5 + 5 + 6 + 7.8 + 8.5 35

x = = 5.83
6 6
7) Find the mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation for the
following sets of data:
a) 10, 12,13, 12, 13, 10, 14 and 13
Median Mean Variance,
Abs. Freq. Abs. Cum.freq. Standard deviation
xi fi Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi

10 2 2 20 200
12 2 4 = 4 24 288
13 3 7 > 4 39 507
14 1 8 14 196

TOTAL 8  x ·f = 97  x
i i i
2
·f i = 1191

Mean: x  
xi ·fi
97
= 12.125
 Mode: Mo = 13
N 8
N 8 12+13
Median: Halfway point:   4 Me = = 12.5
2 2 2

Variance:  2

 x ·f  x
2
i i 2

1191
 12.1252 = 1.859
Range = 14 – 10 = 4 f i 8

Standard deviation:   1.859  1.36

7) Find the mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation for the
following sets of data:
b) 3, 5, 7, 10, 5, 3, 4, 3, 10, 1, 9, 9
Abs.
frequency Median Variance
Mean Standard deviation
xi fi Abs. Cum.freq.
Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
1 1 1 1 1
3 3 4 9 27
4 1 5 4 16
5 2 7 > 6 10 50
7 1 8 7 49
9 2 10 18 162
10 2 12 20 200
TOTAL 12  xi ·fi = 69  xi 2 ·f i= 411
12
x 
xi ·fi 69 = 5.75 N
Mean:  Median: Halfway point:   6 Me = 5
N 12 2 2
Variance: 2 
 xi ·fi  x2  411  5.752 = 1.1875
2

Mode: Mo = 3
 fi 12

Range = 10 – 1 = 9 Standard deviation:   1.1875  1.09

8) These are the numbers of cars that the different families in a street have:
1 2 1 1 0 2 3 1 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 1
a) What type of statistical variable is it?
Variable: Number of cars. Quantitative discrete
b) Draw the most appropiate graph for this type of variable

Graph: Bar chart or pie chart

Number of cars Abs. frequency Cars per family

xi fi
3 cars 0 cars
Number of cars per family
0 2 10% 10%
12

fi
1 10
10

2 cars 8

2 6 30%
6

3 2 1 car 4
50%
2

TOTAL 20 0
0 1 2 3
xi (number of cars)
 Abs. Rel.
Number Abs. Rel. Rel. Cumul. Cum. Rel. Cum. Varian.,
of cars freq. Freq. Freq. Freq. freq. Freq. Mean desviat.

xi fi ni ni (%) Fi Ni Ni (%) xi ·fi xi2 ·fi

0 2 0,10 10% 2 0,10 10% 0 0
1 10 0,50 50% 12>10 0,60 60% 10 10
2 6 0,30 30% 18 0,90 90% 12 24
3 2 0,10 10% 20 1 100% 6 18

TOTAL N=20 1 100%  x ·f =

i i 28 xi
2
·f i = 52

Mean: x   xi ·fi 
28
= 1.4 Mode: Mo = 1
N 20
20
Median: Halfway point: N   10 Me = 1
2 2

Range = 3 – 0 = 3 Variance:  2

 x ·f  x
2
i i 2

52
 1.42 = 0.64
f i 20

Standard deviation:   0.64  0.8

9) The marks achieved by a group of students in the last exam were:
1 5 8 6 2 2 7 8 4 9 4 6 5 4 5 7 2 3 6 8
9 3 2 5 3 10 6 10 1 10 6 8 7 8 4 5 5 6 10 5
a) What type of statistical variable is it? Quantitative discrete variable

c) Represent the data in a bar chart and a frequency polygon.

Abs.
Marks frequency
xi fi
1 2 Frecuecia absoluta
2 4
3 3
4 4
5 7
6 6
7 3
8 5
9 2
10 4
N= 40
 b) Calculate the mean, mode, median, range, variance and standard deviation
Median Mean Variance,
Abs. Abs. Mean:
Marks frequency Cum.freq. standard deviation
xi fi Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi x  xi ·fi 
225
1 2 2 2 2 N 40
= 5.625
2 4 6 8 16
3 3 9 9 27 Median:
4 4 13 16 64
Halfway point:
5 7 20 =20 35 175
N 40
6 6 26 >20 36 216   20
2 2
7 3 29 21 147 5+6
Me =  =5.5
2
8 5 34 40 320
9 2 36 18 162 Mode: Mo = 5
10 4 40 40 400
Range = 10 – 1 = 9
TOTAL N= 40  xi ·fi = 225  xi 2 ·f i = 1529
Variance: 
2

 x ·f
2
i i
x
2

1529
 5.6252 = 6.584
 f
i 40

Standard deviation: 6.584  2.566
10) Given the absolute cumulative frequency table:
Age [0, 2) [2, 4) [4, 6) [6, 8) [8, 10) Calculate the standard
Fi 4 11 24 34 40 deviation

Class Abs. Abs.

Class mark Mean Std. Dev.
Intervals freq. Cum.freq.
xi fi Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
[0, 2) 1 4 4 4 4
[2, 4) 3 7 11 21 63
[4, 6) 5 13 24 65 325
[6, 8) 7 10 34 70 490
[8,10) 9 6 40 54 486
N=40  xi ·fi =214  xi ·f i =1368
2

Mean: x   xi ·fi 
214
= 5.35
N 40

 x ·f 2
1368
Variance:  2
 x 
i i
 5.352 = 5.5775
2

f i 40

Standard deviation:   5.5775  2.36

11) The heights of the players (in centimeters) from a basketball team are
represented by the table:
Height
[170, 175) [175, 180) [180, 185) [185, 190) [190, 195) [195, 200)
(cm)
Number
1 3 4 8 5 2
of players

a) Draw a histogram to show the heights

Height of the players

9
8
Absolute frequency

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
170 175 180 185 190 195 200
Height (cm)
 b) c) Calculate the mean height, mode, median, range, variance, standard deviation and
variation coefficient.
Abs. Abs.
Class Intervals Class mark Mean Std. Dev.
freq. Cum.freq.
Height (cm) xi fi Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
[170, 175) 172.5 1 1 172.5 29756.25
[175, 180) 177.5 3 4 532.5 94518.75
[180, 185) 182.5 4 8 730 133225
[185, 190) 187.5 8 16 >11.5 1500 281250
[190, 195) 192.5 5 21 962.5 185281.25
[195, 200) 197.5 2 23 395 78012.5
23  x ·f =4292.5  x
i i i
2
·f i =802043.75

Mean: x   xi ·fi
4292.5
 = 186.63 Modal class: [185, 190)  Mo = 187.5
N 23
Median: Halfway point: N  23  11.5 Median lies in : [185, 190)  Me= 187.5
2 2
Range = 200 – 170 = 30
2

Variance: 2 
 x ·f  x  802043.75  186.63
i i 2 2
 40.72
f i 23

Variation coefficient: CV    6.38  0.034

Standard deviation:
  40.71  6.38 x 186.63
12) Complete the missing data in the following statistical table:
Also calculate the mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation.

xi fi Fi ni x i ·f i x i 2 ·fi
1 4 4 0.08 4 4
2 4 8 0.08 8 16
3 8 16 0.16 24 72
4 7 23 0.14 28 112
5 5 28 >25 0.1 25 125
6 10 38 0.2 60 360
7 7 45 0.14 49 343
8 5 50 0.1 40 320
N = 50  xi ·fi = 238  xi 2 ·f i =1352
4 4 Mean: x   xi ·fi
238
= 4.76

0.08  N  50 N 50
N 0.08 N 50
Median: Halfway point:   25 Me = 5
5 2 2
ni   0.1 Mode: Mo = 6
50
10 Range = 8 – 1 = 7
ni   0.2
50  x ·f  x
2
2 1352
Variance:  2
 i i
  4.762 = 4.3824
7 f 50
ni   0.14 i

50 Standard deviation:   4.3824  2.09

13) The numbers 4.47 and 10.15 are added to a set of 5 numbers whose
mean is 7.31. What is the mean of the new set of numbers?

x=
 x ·f
i i
 7.31 =
 x ·fi i   xi ·fi  5·7.31 =36.55
N 5

36.55  4.47  10.15 51.17

x=   7.31
7 7
14) The weights, to the nearest kilogram, of 25 men are shown in the frequency
table.
Weight (Kg) [60, 65) [65, 70) [70, 75) [75, 80) [80, 85) [85, 90)
Number of
1 6 8 4 3 3
men

a) Draw a histogram to show the heights

Weight of men
9
Absolute frequency

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
70 65 70 75 80 85 90
Weight (kg)
 Class Abs. Abs.
Class mark Mean Std. Dev.
Intervals freq. Cum.freq.
Weight
fi
(Kg) xi Fi xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
[60, 65) 62.5 1 1 62.5 3906.25
[65, 70) 67.5 6 7 405 27337.5
[70, 75) 72.5 8 15 >12.5 580 42050
[75, 80) 77.5 4 19 310 24025
[80, 85) 82.5 3 22 247.5 20418.75
[85, 90) 87.5 3 25 262.5 22968.75

 x ·f =1867.5  x ·f i =140706.25
2
25 i i i

Mean: x   i i  1867.5 = 74.7 Modal class : [70, 75)  Mo = 72.5

x ·f
N 25
25
Median: Halfway point: N  12.5 The median lies in [70, 75)  Me= 72.5
2 2
Range = 90 – 60 = 30 Variance:  
2  xi2 ·fi 2
x 
140706.25
 74.72  48.16
 fi 25

Standard deviation:   48.16  6.94

 6.94
Variation coefficient: CV    0.09
x 74.7
 WORKSHEET: STATISTICS
1) Mrs. Smith asked her students about their favourite subject in school, and the answers were:
Maths English Science English Maths History English Music English Maths
English Maths
English History English English English English English Maths History
a) Make a Science
frequency table
Maths for the given data.
Maths

Abs. frequency Rel. Rel. frequency Abs. Cumulative Rel. Cumulative Rel. Cumulative
frequency
Favourite subject fi ni (%) frequency Fi Frequency Ni Frequency Ni (%)
ni
Maths 7 29%
0.29
English 11 46%
0.46
Science 2 8%
0.08
History 3 13%
0.13
Music 1 4%
0.04
TOTAL 24 100%
1
b) How many students are there in this d) What percentage of the students likes Maths?
There
class? are 24 students in this class 29% of the students likes Maths

e) What is the favourite subject in this class?

c) Two students
How many like like
students Science
Science? The favourite subject is English.
2) Lucy recorded the amount of time she spent on six activities over a twenty four hour period and drew a bar graph, as follows:

Lucy’s daily activities

a) On which activity did she spend less hours?

She spent less hours washing

b) On which activity did she spend more time?

She spent more hours sleeping

c)Approximately how many more hours did she spend

sleeping than watching TV?

She spent sleeping three and a half hours

more than watching TV
1) The marks achieved in a maths test by 30 students are: 2 3 8 7 7 3 9 5 5 4 1 6 5 7 6 6 5 8 7 3 4
5 6 5 4 6 7 7 9 8
a) Organize the data in a frequency table

Marks in Maths Abs. frequency Rel. frequency Rel. frequencyAbs. CumulativeRel. Cumulative Rel. Cumulative

xi fi ni ni (%) frequency Fi Frequency Ni Frequency Ni (%)

1 1 0,03 3% 1 0,03 3%
2 1 0,03 3% 2 0,07 7%
3 3 0,10 10% 5 0,17 17%
4 3 0,10 10% 8 0,27 27%
5 6 0,20 20 % 14 0,47 47%
6 5 0,17 17% 19 0,63 63%
7 6 0,20 20% 25 0,83 83%
8 3 0,10 10 % 28 0,93 93%
9 2 0,07 7% 30 1,00 100%
TOTAL 30 1,00 100%

b) How many students passed the maths test? 30-8 = 22 students passed the test

c) What percentage of the students failed the maths test? 27% of the students failed the test
c) Draw a bar chart

MARKS IN MATHS
d) Draw a pie chart organizing the data as IN, SF, B, NT, SB SB
6%
Marks in Maths Abs. frequency Rel. frequency Angle
IN
xi fi ni (%) 27%

IN 8 IN
N
SF 6 30%
SF
B 5
B
N 9
N
SB 2
SF
N = 30 100% 360° SB
20%
B
17%
5) The teachers of a high school are asked about their favourite film genres. The answers were:
Comedy: 27% Action: 18% Romance: 14% Drama: 14%
Horror: 11% Foreign: 8% Science fiction: 8%
a) Draw a bar chart and a pie chart with the data.
b) Imagine there are 120 teachers in this high school. How many of them answer “Romance”?

FAVOURITE FILM GENRE

30%

Favourite Rel. frequency Angle 25%

film genre ni (%)

Relative frequency
20%

Comedy 27%
15%

10%
Action 18%
5%
Romance 14% 0%

Drama 14%
Comedy Action Romance Drama Horror Foreign Science
fiction

Horror 11% Film genre

Foreign 8%
FAVOURITE FILM GENRE
Science fiction 8% Science fiction;
8%
TOTAL 100% 360° Foreign; 8%
Comedy; 27%

Horror; 11%

Drama; 14%
Action; 18%

Romance; 14%
8) These are the numbers of cars that the different families in a street have: 1 2 1 1 0 2 3 1 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 1
a) Make a frequency table
b) Calculate the mean, mode, median, range, variance and standard deviation
c) Represent the data using a pie chart and a bar graph

Number of cars Abs. frequency Rel. frequency Rel. Abs. Cumul. Freq. Rel. Cumul.freq. Rel. Cumul.Freq. Mean Varian., desviat.
frequency
xi fi ni Fi Ni Ni (%) xi ·fi xi2 ·fi
ni (%)
0 2 0.10 2 0.10 10% 0 0
10%
1 10 0.50 12 >10 0.60 60% 10 10
50%
2 6 0.30 18 0.90 90% 12 24
30%
3 2 0.10 20 1 100% 6 18
10%
TOTAL 20 1 28 52
100%
N 20
Median: Halfway point:   10 Me = 1
2 2

Mean: x 
 xi ·fi 
28
= 1.4 Variance:  2

 x ·f  x
2
i i 2

52
 1.42 = 0.64
N 20 f i
20

Mode: Mo = 1 Standard deviation:   0.64  0.8

Range = 3 – 0 = 3
c) Represent the data using a pie chart and a bar graph

Cars per family

Number of cars per family
12

fi
3 cars 0 cars
10% 10% 10

2 cars 4
30% 2

0
1 car
0 1 2 3
50%
xi (number of cars)
12) In a music class, each student must choose an instrument out of four possibilities. The distribution of the students
according to the chosen instrument is represented by the following pie chart:

Flute a) What is the most popular instrument? And the least?

Guitar The most popular instrument is the guitar and the least the piano

b) Which instrument was chosen by exactly 25% of the class?

It was the flute

Piano

Clarinet
c) Knowing that the number of students that have chosen each instrument are 7, 8, 9 and 12, what number corresponds
to each instrument?

7 students have chosen paino, 8 clarinet, 9 flute and 12 guitar.